1820 Federal Indiana Census Record
Thomas Lincoln with check mark and 3 down is
David Winkler my 3rd Great Grandfather, Young's father.
They may of gone to school together, since they were neighbors
and Young was educated.
I have found books that mention the Winkler's as their neighbors.

|David died in 1822 and his widowed wife and
adult and younger children moved to IL the same
year the Lincoln's did in 1830.
The Winkler's in the North part of the county
the Lincoln's in the south part.

In 1842 Abraham Lincoln
was Young Ewing Winkler's lawyer
Patterson vs Winkler
I just viewed the court records, it is unfortunate but anything
with Lincoln's signature on it when to Springfield.
But how many people can say Abe was their family lawyer?

But somewhere down the line something happened
and they were on opposing sides of view during the
Civil War
hence the Charleston Riot

the courthouse in 1864

Luckily Dennis Hank's, Lincoln's cousin helped to
get all the charges dropped for the men involved.
Before he went to Washington DC in person to ask for the release,
this a letter he sent.

I get chills thinking of theCivil War Lincoln in the White House reading this letter
why??
note the last sentence
"young e winkler was wounded"
Now if they were not very familiar with each other
Hanks would not of written that.
After all there were, 21 other people killed or wounded.

For what ever reason that caused their riff,
I so admire President Lincoln and think of him as one of our own
Not just in Illinois but in Coles County.
I get to walk where he walked.

this home still stands in Charleston where he spent the night
during the Lincoln Douglas debates in 1858
Lincoln stayed there so I am trying to get it on a
house tour for the Riot weekend.

My posts maybe sporadic over the next year since I will
be living and breathing Lincoln/Charleston/The Riot.
I hope you hang in there with me as I venture into
something I have never done before, planning a
major 3 day event for a town.

I just hope it a success and I see a bunch of people
running around with T-shirts that say........

I'm sure you will enjoy working on this project!! Sounds like so much fun! What city do you live in? I need to contact my cousin about her Dad's family history....I believe a relative was a law partner of Lincoln. Family history...so exciting!

About Me

Enjoying the simple things in life. Watching the hummingbird, finding a new cousin while working on my genealogy, cutting my roses, finding a new treasure at a antique store....NOW that is excitment to me!
I have a 2 story Victorian with a wrap around porch, where my husband and I live with our dog Greta and cat Boots. I had to, it had a pink door the color of my Maternal Grandmothers house and pocket doors like my Paternal Grandparents house! In 2009 I bought my Paternal Grandparents home 2 hours away, in the town where I was born, we call it 1515. It was meant to bring my cousins and I together more often but it has been much more than that.
Oh it is a sentimental life!